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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 85 / No. 1
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Polk Middle students celebrate Chinese Spring Festival
The students in Mrs. Liang’s Mandarin class at Polk County Middle School recently celebrated the Chinese Spring Festival, what most people call the “Chinese New Year.” This festival is to welcome spring, a season that bears new hopes. The students made spring ornaments and decorations for the school’s entrance. Most of the ornaments are red because red is the most popular color in China. The students cut paper into threedimensional Chinese characters that mean “spring.” They folded the paper into a special pattern and then cut the characters out. The final piece has four sides, representing the Chinese phrase phrase .四季如春 sì jì rú chūn. This phrase phrase the Chinese ns of the year expresses would be like spring, warm and full of people’s wish that the four Middle students celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival. Back: Sophie Oder, Emma Wagoner, Lydia Dona, wouldaccording be Polk 2012 isseasons the yearofofthe theyear dragon, the Leah Stockdale, Colleen Burke, Patric Stimac, Victor Santos and Carigan Carson. Front: Visiting LiliantoOwens,
n it indicates abundance and surplus. Fish have Chinese teacher Lianhong Liang, Adriana Talley, Anamarie Gundersen, Michaela Villecco, Skye Yarborough, Vincent“may Gage and Ericka Jolley. (photo submitted by Carlann Scherping and Lianhong Liang) sts. According to Liang, the Chinese (Continued on page 4) phrase yú) sounds the same as “may there be fish every
The House of Flags museum in Columbus recently caught the interest of the statewide N.C. Visitor Center. The museum is featured on the organization’s website, www. ncvisitorcenter.com. The article focuses on the museum’s collection of flags, which it says offers a rare insight into our nation’s history, patriotism, politics and the price of liberty.
11-year-old Polk County girl abducted, found in local barn 31-year-old man charged in case by Leah Justice
The parents of an 11-year-old Polk County girl went to wake her up for school on Thursday, Jan. 26 and dis-
covered she was missing. A missing persons report was made to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and the girl was found around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, hidden in a barn at a 31-year(Continued on page 3)
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